Here is yet another reason to have chickens for the freshest eggs. I have never written about my ill-fated chickens, but someday I will. Suffice it to say, if you
have the inkling to keep a couple hens in your backyard, or have more roaming your acreage. DO IT! Messy though they can be, it is worth it. The only time messiness was a factor for me was when I had a flock that was so tame they used to come up to the front door in the morning and peck at the window for food, at the same time, pooping all over the front steps. A truce with my chicken-hating husband has brought an end to that, made easier on my part by the fact that our now 3 year old GSP kills them if I let them run where they please.
But this post isn’t about chickens! It’s about the German Pancake! For those of you who don’t know me, can you even imagine how much I can talk and digress?
This pancake is so easy and so impressive you just have to make it for Mother’s Day or Father’s Day. Barring the opportunity for breakfast in bed, just do it to impress someone. Fresh eggs are best and strawberries make it perfect. The recipe is from a book I have had since I was married in 1990. Susan Branch’s Heart of the Home, Notes from a Vineyard Kitchen cookbook. It really has some amazing and simple recipes. An oldie but a goodie!
The recipe is attached as a link by clicking on the irresistible image below. Go on, I know you want to!
Michelle says
Serves FOUR? Two at the most!!! Looks delicious, and I’m anxious to try it. I like when I have all the ingredients at home. BTW, maybe your next blog should be about a makeup makeover. I can’t believe you didn’t post the before and after shots 🙁
Evelina says
I’m dying for chickens but I have nearly tamed the local fox population who now arrive at nightfall and sometimes breakfast-time and sit LIKE DOGS in the garden waiting for me to toss them some scraps. I am afraid a henhouse would be too much of a temptation! :-/
jennifer menke says
Ha Evelina! Foxes and chickens do not mix! However, electric fence would allow you to keep both, if you did it right. Pet foxes and safe chickens. But then, maybe you should listen to me, who has an electric fence and still manages to loose several chickens a year, if not entire flocks, due to my negligence.
Laurie says
I put something like this on the brunch menu one time. I thought they were fabulous. I think I had several different toppings – honey caramelized bananas and rum butter; and something to do with a house made fresh ginger syrup. I can’t remember what fruit I put with that, maybe peaches.
All I cook now is peanut butter and jelly sandwiches shaped like dinosaurs.
Laurie says
oh, and I forgot to mention that we called them Dutch Babies. It’s an old slang term for that type of pancake.
admin says
This too, shall pass. Soon you’ll be cleaning up after your 15 year old Amelia in the kitchen, making an unholy mess, and remembering fondly those stupid peanut butter sandwiches and your clean kitchen!
Brook Parsons says
I like your recipe format, easy to print.